What is Wes Voicing?

Radio

Radio
and Wes have shared a strange relationship... kind of like the
one he shared with Jewel backstage at the HFSmas Holiday Nutcracker. Wes
is the deranged comic talent and she is... wary. Wes has
been fortunate to have worked with some of the greats in radio. From
the late great Wolfman Jack, to Doctor Demento, The Daily Feed and
WHFS, these are a few of the places Wes has traveled the airwaves...

WBAL, Baltimore (Every Thursday at 11:30pm)

Chip Franklin is a very funny man. He has translated years
of being one of the funniest stand-up comedians around into a vibrant daily
talk show on 1190 AM WBAL in Baltimore. He also has great taste,
which is why every Thursday at 11:30 am (unless he bumps them
for a big story on pot smoking nuns) Wes joins Chip and Shari
Elliker to review movies they've never seen before. Sure, Ebert and
that shadow of Siskel can review movies they've SEEN, but where is
the challenge in that? Wes and Chip met doing stand-up, and once
tied each other in the National Lampoon Comedy Contest. Wes
guested for many years on Chip's WMAL show in Washington, DC (where
he also hosted a few shows with Shari Elliker). If you want
to hear Chip's show, hit the link below.

The legendary WOLFMAN JACK

One of Wes' great thrills was working a nationally syndicated weekly
radio show with the late, great Wolfman Jack. Wes was Wolfman's comedy
co-host, writing and performing live comedy bits and impressions
with the man during a live four hour show from the Hard Rock Cafe
in Washington DC every Friday night. Wolf would pound on a duct
tape bound telephone book while howling to the hits, as
Wes sat at the ready behind an SFX
arsenal ready to jump in with bits, improv or impressions when Wolfman
was ready to have fun. Which was often.. After one year on
WXTR in DC, the show went national and moved down the street to Planet
Hollywood, where they ran for almost one more year. Wes
performed with Wolfman for the last time on June 30, 1995, less than
10 hours before Wolf passed away. Wolf signed the last
copy of his autobiography to Wes that night, and gave him a customary
bear hug at the end of the evening. "Don't go nowhere,
baby," he had said, "Great things are gonna happen." The
man pulled his large brimmed black hat down over his mischievous
eyes and walked out into the night. He would make it home to North
Carolina just in time to give his beloved wife Lou a great big hug. "One
more time", he had said. Then he was gone.

99.1 WHFS

Wes was there at the dawn of the HFStivals, and was a contributing
voice to "The Daily Feed" even before that. "The Daily
Feed", by the way, remains to this day one of the most brilliant
and insightful political parodies around. John Dryden, Frank Benlin
and Max Knobny are currently heard on washingtonpost.com and dailyfeed.com...
daily. It is a plus to the internet that you can tap on the link
below and hear them EVERY DAY.

Wes filled in on the morning show at WHFS during the days of
David Einstien and Mother Earth Meg Brulator, and became a full time
fixture when Bob Waugh arrived for the Modern Rock Morning Show. Mother
Earth Meg Brulator left after a year, and was replaced at the newsdesk
by Rob Timm. Wes contributed bits, impressions and songs to
the show, including the infamous "You
Klingon Bastard," which
led to T-shirts, Shatner worship, and 40,000 people waving their
arms in Shatneresque pain and shouting "YOU... KLINGON BASTARD...
YOUKILLEDMYSON! in unison at numerous HFStivals.

Another of Wes' songs hit the airwaves independently of WHFS, when
his Christmas Song, "I Killed Santa" became a Christmas
staple on The Doctor Demento
Show. Wes called himself "Fresh
Pirates," and the song was produced by the band "The Pheromones." Al
Johnson and Jimmy Patterson put together a great band for that song,
many of whom had played with Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Wes left HFS for his own morning show on WXTR, but returned to
HFS near the end of the Clinton administration to create a trilogy
of Clinton songs, including "Monica's Playground" and "88
Lies About the President's Women". Clinton is no more, and alas,
the same can now be said of WHFS, at least not as it was. 99.1
has become El Zol, all Spanish radio. HFS has moved to a
part time format in Baltimore on 105.7, and also exists as an online
music format. Still, the HFStival lives on. For how long? Depends
on the cash flow.